The best way to contact me outside of class is during office hours
daily 10-10:20 and
12-12:30 in 326 Walker Hall (and some days at 2:50 as announced in class)
or as an ASULearn
Message. [Participants / my picture /
Send message]

Dates are subject to change and additional homework will
fill in what is listed. WORK IS DUE at the beginning of class
unless otherwise noted.
Turn in work that meets the criterion in
Presenting Homework and Projects.
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means that the assignment will receive a
numerical grade while the other assignments (TBA) are counted in the
participation grade.

Search the web to find a few short quotes about what mathematics
is, and bring the quotations and the names of the people they are
attributed to -
prepare to present these in class and tell us why you chose those
quotations.

Continue working on project 4 for Wed and the research presentations
for Friday.

18 June - Mon

Search for information on the mathematician David Blackwell and report
on what you found

Bring your stock purchase info with you. If you did not
purchase your stock in lab on Thursday, then
purchase your stock

Review the statistics labs [Stock Data and Graph and ASULearn Data Collection, Representations of Data, and Can We Predict the Future? Stocks, Class Data, and Raw Egg Regressions] and bring your notes on them with you to lab, along with your stock graph.

Take notes on (keep track of the pages)
or highlight How Do You Knowp. 156 on When
Good Graphs Go Bad,
p. 172-176 on the
Center of a Distribution,
the Spread of a Distribution, and Box Plots,
and
p. 185-188 on Linear Relationships

Use the following lo, q1, median, q3, and hi
to sketch three boxplots on the same graph for these Nielsen ratings points
(that roughly represent the percentage of households tuned in).
ABC [13.5, 14.4, 16.6, 17.2, 20.2]
CBS [13.1, 15.5, 16.35, 17.3, 21.9]
NBC [13.1, 13.6, 14.5, 15.0, 17.6]
Which network does the best? The worst? Can you say something
positive about each network using the boxplots? Explain.

Take Notes on the following in Heart of Mathematics
(keep track of the pages)
p. 583-584 Predicting the Future in an Uncertain Worldp. 605-614 Are Coincidences as Truly Amazing as They First Appear?p. 666-671 and 675-683 Stumbling Through a Minefield of Data

Create an analysis and critique using bullet points of
the information in these articles on the
impact of young voters
by referring to specific content and page numbers in both books from
our homework readings from Friday and today

8 June- Fri

Read and take notes on or highlight:
section 1.5: Personal Finance: Investments
in the How Do You Know?
book (beginning on p. 51)
to gain some familiarity with personal investments and stock information.

Read and take notes on:
Heart of Mathematics p. 608-609
(How to Get Rich Quick as a Stock Whiz).

Read and highlight or take notes (keep track of the pages) on:
How Do You Knowp.
131-134 on History of Statistics, Census, Sampling and
Random Sampling,
p. 138 on estimating a characteristic as well as
sample size,
p. 140 from item 3. to the bottom of the page on
misleading questions, and
p. 142 on Human Subject Research
and bring the book to
class.

If you did not complete the lab, at least complete up through question
7 on the debt to income ratio (see the class highlights page for the car
lab)

To turn in:
How Do You Know Exercise Set 1.2 (beginning on p. 23)
#9, 14, 21, and 24
and Exercise Set 1.3 (beginning on p. 32)# 8 and 10
Take a try of the ASULearn Material Review Questions for
Test 2 and read the study guide
and write down any questions that you have.
Review the class highlights page and begin taking notes for finance
information for Project 4.

5 June - Tues

If you did not complete the lab, do so...

Skim p. 26-29 in How Do You Know? on loans and amortization.

Complete You Try It 3.4 on the top of page 30, which is similar to the car
loan practice problem from lab. Show work. Hint: When you solve for the
monthly payment, you should obtain 381.84 and the balance due at the end of
3 months is 13782.35.

Search the web for information about personal or consumer debt or
loans in the US.
How about for the entire world? How about for North Carolina?
Also search for information about the federal deficit.
Report back on what you found.

How Do You Know? Exercise Set 1.1 beginning on p. 6:
# 1, 13, 16, 17, and 20.
and p. 21 Exercise Set 1.2 # 1 and 2.
In order to save paper, I recommend writing in the workbook and tearing
the page out to turn it in.

Take a try of ASULearn Material Review Quiz [participation requires at least one try of the quiz, but the specific grade does not matter - it is only there to provide you with feedback.]

Read through the following and message me on ASULearn or write down
(to turn in) two items that you found interesting, disagreed with,
had a question on, or wished had been done:
Jeff Weeks InterviewTest 1 study guide

28 May - Mon

Read through the following and take notes and be prepared to discuss:
An article I wrote for Mathematics Awareness Month:
The Shape
of the UniverseHeart of Mathematics Section 4.6 (The Shape of Reality)
and 4.7 (The Fourth Dimension)
Gluing Spaces

Bring a 10-12 inch diameter child's ball - these are usually found in bins in stores and cost a couple of dollars. Be sure that this ball is smooth, can bounce, and that you will not mind writing on it during class.

24 May - Thur

Begin working on project 1 (see link under Friday's due date)
by searching for scholarly and non-scholarly sources with diverse perspectives.

Read through the Syllabus
which is online - search google for
Dr. Sarah, click on my page, and click on the MAT 1010 link and then the
Syllabus link. Come prepared to share something you read and write down any
questions you have -
the university considers this a binding contract between us.

Read through project 1 under Friday's due date and choose a problem to
work on.

Go to ASULearn, click on Profile, click on Edit Profile,
and add a picture of yourself so that it is easier to get to know each
other. Note: To
contact anyone in class, click on Participants, click on their
picture, and
click on Send message. This is the best way to contact me outside of
class.

Obtain from the bookstore:
purchase the How Do You Know? workbook
and rent the hardcover Heart of Mathematics book
and the i-clicker.